Catch the next wave in noise control engineering at NOISE-CON 2019 in San Diego (26-28 August). This will be a joint meeting with the Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration (ADC40). Learn all about what is planned for the conference here.

 

We catch up with the French Acoustical Society, Société Française d’Acoustique (SFA), in our Member Profile section. The SFA is currently organizing the 9th Forum Acusticum Congress for the European Acoustical Association, which will be held in the World Heritage City of Lyon in April 2020. Our ';;;;From the Archives';;;; feature also revisits the SFA profile from out 1993 issue.

 

We feature a short tutorial from Eric E. Ungar about the background and problems related tovibration criteria used to specify floor vibration limits in sensitive facilities.

 

Our regular feature Noise/Notes is back with a roundup of some of the stories that have been making headlines all around the world. The New Yorker (USA) asks if noise is the next public health crisis, while the Guardian (UK) reports that in crowded cities, it is usually the poorest neighborhoods that often experience the most noise pollution.

 

Learn more about these and other stories making headlines here.